Magna Audio's custom-made counterweight balance and armboard service!

Here's a beautiful solid ebony armboard.
Designed to fit the fantastic but deep and wide Audiomods tonearm with VTA adjuster, to a Technics SL-1210 GR deck.

I installed and set it up on the deck that the customer has left with me for a couple of days.

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Here is a heavy stand-alone armpod.

11cm tall, with ebony armboard to fit a SME 3009 tonearm. Designed for a custom tonearm cable exit arrangement.
Height adjustment and levelling via the 3 brass feet

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Can be made to fit pretty much any tonearm and height requirement.

An extra counterweight to sit along side the main weight for a SME 3012 mkII.

This will enable the use of the heaviest of cartridges and headshells.

Lacquered to close match.

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Technics SL-1210 GAE limited edition and Kuzma Stogi Reference armboard and fitting.

Here's the finished armboard with arm mounted on the deck.

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Under armboard fixings

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All back together

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Checking the VTA range

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Cooooooool !!

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Cooooooool !!

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Thanks.
Ebony is cool.

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Thanks.
Ebony is cool.

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Purpleheart on one of my silver units would be the bee's knees.

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Purpleheart on one of my silver units would be the bee's knees.

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Ebony is a bit more dense at 1100 to 1300.
Purple heart around 610 to 910.

Might not sound the same.

Would be a looker though.

Here is the stand-alone armpod with SME arm mounted.

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The customer reported

Thank you Steve. Excellent work!
It looks awesome in my setup and is flipping heavy... nice!!"

I've been fettling a Fidelity Research FR64s for a customer.
The arm was bought as sold..
As a FR64s owner / user, I could compare it to mine.

These are heavyweights for low compliance MC cartridges.
So nicely made and machined.

A few things needed addressing.
Armlift rubber missing, lift pot needed attention and re-siliconing.

The heavy anti-skate weight was missing - made a new one.

The armbase (not original), had a poorly made sleeve that allowed the armpillar to wiggle - I machined new close fitting one and 2 nylon tipped grubscrews.

Sounds superb and will go on another 50 years.

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A couple of armboards...
One a solid ebony Acoutic Research ES-1, with Linn armbase drillings.

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And here on deck

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Next a Thorens TD-125 mkII.
Premium birch plywood.
Lacquered black.

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